Liberty, Equality, FraternityH. Holt, 1873 - Всего страниц: 350 "Stephen's book is the finest exposition of conservative thought in the latter half of the nineteenth century."--Sir Ernest Barker, "Political Thought in England--1848 to 1941"Students of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defense of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill's famous treatise, "On Liberty," Stephen criticized Mill for turning abstract doctrines of the French Revolution into "the creed of a religion."Only the constraints of morality and law make liberty possible, warned Stephen, and attempts to impose unlimited freedom, material equality, and an indiscriminate love of humanity will lead inevitably to coercion and tyranny. Liberty must be restrained by custom and tradition if it is to endure; equality must be limited to equality before the law if it is to be just; and fraternity must include actual men, not the amorphous mass of mankind, if it is to be real and genuine.Stuart D. Warner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University. |
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... common to Mr. Mill and to myself . I do not think Mr. Mill would dispute the following statement of the theory of human actions . All voluntary acts are caused by motives . All motives may be placed in one of two categories - hope and ...
... common to Mr. Mill and to myself . I do not think Mr. Mill would dispute the following statement of the theory of human actions . All voluntary acts are caused by motives . All motives may be placed in one of two categories - hope and ...
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... common order of nature . This answer only suggests the further question , whether nature is in this instance to be regarded as a friend or as an enemy ? Every reason- able man would answer that the restraint which the fear of the ...
... common order of nature . This answer only suggests the further question , whether nature is in this instance to be regarded as a friend or as an enemy ? Every reason- able man would answer that the restraint which the fear of the ...
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... common use of language be described as cases of self - protection or of the prevention of harm to persons other than those coerced . Each is a case of coercion , for the sake of ་ what the persons who exercise coercive power regard as ...
... common use of language be described as cases of self - protection or of the prevention of harm to persons other than those coerced . Each is a case of coercion , for the sake of ་ what the persons who exercise coercive power regard as ...
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... common- place which no one would care to dispute , or makes an incredible assertion about the state of human society . No one , I suppose , ever denied either in theory or in practice that there is a sphere within which the tastes of ...
... common- place which no one would care to dispute , or makes an incredible assertion about the state of human society . No one , I suppose , ever denied either in theory or in practice that there is a sphere within which the tastes of ...
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... originality and vigour of character , no way to do so is so sure as to put a high level of comfort easily within the reach of moderate and common - place exertion . A life made A life THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION 43.
... originality and vigour of character , no way to do so is so sure as to put a high level of comfort easily within the reach of moderate and common - place exertion . A life made A life THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION 43.
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Стр. 6 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Стр. 6 - These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.
Стр. 25 - Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.
Стр. 225 - ... the movement of. the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
Стр. 34 - And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost. or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct : the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience...
Стр. 42 - The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally and temporarily with the opponents of improvement; but the only unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals.
Стр. 49 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Стр. 130 - But the strongest of all the arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct is that when it does interfere the odds are that it interferes wrongly and in the wrong place.
Стр. 22 - Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.
Стр. 6 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.